New website launched in Juárez to fight child hunger

Zaragoza Foundation created webpage

Border residents now have the opportunity to help fight child hunger in Juárez by donating through a new website launched on Tuesday.

In return, donors will be able to download a recorded audio from Mexican motivator Omar Villalobos with his latest advice to happiness.

The Zaragoza Foundation created the webpage www.vaporjuarez.com as a way to expand the organization's food and nutritional projects and reach out to more Juárez children in need, the foundation's board president, Pedro Zaragoza, said.

"We want to spread the word in the community and to other organizations to help us in this mission," Zaragoza said.

According to the foundation's officials, there are about 25,000 children in Juárez that suffer some kind of malnutrition.

The foundation has been able to help 15,000 children through five food and nutritional programs that offer breakfast and lunch in schools as well as in-kind donations to needy families, they said.

The programs have been ongoing since 2009 in northwest and southwest Juárez schools and shelters, the foundation's director, Verónica Jiménez, said.

Through the webpage, for a little as $5, donors will be able to download a recorded audio from Villalobos latest work, "Seven Secrets to Being Happy," Jiménez said.

The audio and video are in Spanish.

Villalobos, who was born in Juárez and has talked at motivational conferences for 20 years, said this is the first time he participates in a project that benefits his hometown.

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"I always wanted to give something in return (to Juárez), but something in human development. Now, I'll be able to give back in a compact disc for a good cause," he said.